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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] protect /sbin/init from unwanted signals more
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:24:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081120212418.GA29345@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081120152039.GB3325@redhat.com>

On 11/20, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 11/19, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >
> > The effect is fine, but that seems like a kludgey way to do it.
>
> Agreed, that is why I did the next patch to kill the ugliness.
>
> > I really don't think the sigaction case matters--certainly it will never
> > come up with SIGKILL.
>
> Yes. This patch doesn't affect sigaction, the next one adds a very

(this one, not the next one)

> minor side effect: init drops pending !sig_kernel_ignore() signals
> if it does sigaction(SIG_IGN). But this has nothing to do with SIGKILL
> of course.

Ah sorry, now I see I misunderstood you...

You mean, we shouldn't touch the sigaction() path. Now I am wondering
if it is really OK to drop signals if init does sigaction(SIG_DFL),
perhaps you are right.

Oleg.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-20 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 17:59 [PATCH 1/2] protect /sbin/init from unwanted signals more Oleg Nesterov
2008-11-19 18:51 ` Roland McGrath
2008-11-20  2:00   ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-20  3:04     ` Roland McGrath
2008-11-20 14:52     ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-11-20 18:10       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-20 20:00         ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-11-20 20:28           ` [PATCH] processes: reparent_thread: don't call kill_orphaned_pgrp() if task_detached() Oleg Nesterov
2008-11-26 20:21             ` Roland McGrath
2008-12-04 17:14               ` Oleg Nesterov
2008-12-04  1:06             ` Roland McGrath
2008-11-20 15:20   ` [PATCH 1/2] protect /sbin/init from unwanted signals more Oleg Nesterov
2008-11-20 21:24     ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]

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